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July 19, 2010

Learning Objectives

Students will:

• practice active reading techniques.
• learn about the elements of drama.
• learn to write effective sentences.

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Homework:

• Finish reading and taking notes for pages 574-577
• Complete the summary section of your Cornell Notes
• The teacher is checking all today's work tomorrow.

Reminders:

• Checking homework today:
  • See the list on the white board.
• Summer School Planner (Due Each Friday)
  • summer school planner 2010.pdf
• Dialectical Journal:
• http://mrlemaster.com/sitefiles/dialectical_night.pdf

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Agenda

Introductions and class expectations: The Teacher will explain what you will be expected to do, classroom procedures, attendance and other information you will need to successfully complete this class for credit.

• Keep Cornell Notes. (Always title your pages properly)
• Review Cornell Notes.
• Complete the Summary for homework.

Course Introduction: Last session focused on short stories, this section will focus on drama.

Reading Section: Review Active Reading Strategies

• Read pages 564-565 and keep Cornell Notes.
• Review as a class.

Writing Section: Quick Write - Self Deception

• People often lie to themselves. They trick themselves into believing something that is not true.
• Maybe they trick themselves into believing they are nice, when really they are mean.
• Maybe they deceive themselves into thinking they are good looking, when they are extremely unattractive.
  • Do you agree that people practice self-deception? What kinds of things do people deceive themselves about?
  • Make a list of things people deceive themselves about with a brief explanation for each.

Reading Section: "The Inspector-General" page 566

• Setting a purpose: What is our purpose for reading?
• Build Background
• Choose students to read.
• The teacher stops students to have them participate in the active reading prompts in the margins.
• Students write their responses, Cornell Note style, in their notebooks.

Grammar Section: Effective Sentences

• Students keep Cornell Notes
  • Practice:
    • Sentences Classified by Function
    • Sentence Combining

Reading Section: "The Inspector-General" page 566

• Students work in groups of 3 to 4.
• Students answer 1-10 on page 572

Reading Section: Elements of Drama

• Students keep Cornell Notes during the presentation.
• ElementsofDrama.ppt

Grammar Section: Effective Sentences

• Expanding Short Sentences, Shortening Long Sentences
• Using Different Sentence Openers and Structures

Reading Section: Understanding Shakespeare and Elizabethan Drama

• students read page 574-577